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Cindy L. Otis

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Young Adult, Contemporary, Thriller

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Cindy is the author of AT THE SPEED OF LIES, a contemporary thriller out now with Scholastic. Cindy is also the author of TRUE OR FALSE, the critically acclaimed YA non-fiction read, which was a Golden Kite Award finalist.

She was born on the West Coast and raised in the northeast where she spends more time than she would like maintaining the tenuous peace between her pets.

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Cindy My son was assigned your book “True or False” as part of his summer reading obligation (Old Colony Regional, Rochester MA). Decided to read the book to generate a robust discussion and wanted to let you know how enjoyable I found your material to digest. Informative, easy to appreciate and full of interesting tidbits of historical events I am pleased to have a chance to review your work. ? John Roy
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“If you distrust everything, you'll believe anything.”
― Cindy L. Otis, At the Speed of Lies
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“Jefferson, too, though a firm believer in the free press, did not always care for the consequences when they affected him personally. In 1807, he said, “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper” and that “the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them.”
― Cindy L. Otis, True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News
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“Whenever a foreign newspaper or reporter said something critical of the regime, the Nazis called them the Lügenpresse, or “lying press.”8 To be clear, the Nazis were not fighting against fake news—after all, fake news was an integral part of their strategy. Instead, the term was meant to discredit actual news so that Germans would not believe what was reported.”
― Cindy L. Otis, True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News
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